UFOMYST
CaseCone2008

Paramount, CA, USA

Day time sighting of bizarre cone shaped object seen hovering aloft.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-05-31
Where
Paramount, CA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
33.889, -118.160 · exact
Slug
cone-over-paramount-ca-2008-07b26e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Paramount, CA shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 709 reports came from California in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 0.5% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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